Monday, 8 July 2013

Route Masters

The husband of one of our church members at St John's Seven Kings, Tom Mckerr, has been driving the number 25 for the past two years and features in the BBC2 documentary Route Masters. He said that at first he did not want to be included on the documentary and it was only when he gave the film crew a lift home he ended up being included. He said often when people cannot pay, or do not want to, they become abusive. “I have been threatened and spat at many times, with threats to beat me up and stab me. I’ve been sworn at in a number of languages but it’s just a minority. “It’s nice when the public are leaving the bus and say ‘thank you driver’,” he added. “It makes you feel good when they acknowledge you.”

About Me

Between

This is a blog written while trying to live creatively between the times; between the death and resurrection of Christ and the expected consummation signified by the Kingdom of God. It features the people and things that inspire me to live creatively in the tension of the now and the not yet.
This blog is dedicated to the memory of my brother, Nick Evens, who died, together with 23 other aid workers and plane staff, when their UN-chartered plane crashed in Kosovo in 1999. Ex-59 commando, youthworker and firefighter, Nick had been working in Kosovo with Tear Fund's Disaster Response Team.